Views of New South Wales, 1844-1849 / James Coutts Crawford

PXA 953

fonds

ca. 1844-1849

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours

421045

16 drawings - pencil and watercolour - 35.5 x 25.3 cm. or smaller

James Coutts Crawford (1817-1915) settled in Australia, following his retirement from the Royal Navy in the 1830s. After working overlanding stock between Sydney and Adelaide, he visited New Zealand, where he lived from 1841 to 1844. On his return to Australia he resided at the residence Forest Lodge in The Glebe in Sydney, where he made a number of watercolours. In 1845 he purchased Eton Vale, a sheep property on the Darling Downs near Toowoomba in Queensland. On his travels around Australia and New Zealand he made sketches and watercolours of the scenery and also, frequently, of rock formations and geological features.

1. Main shaft, Belubula
2. View from T. H. Hoods, Boree N.S.W.
3. Boree caves, N.S.W.
4. View from Bothuys [?] house, N.S.W.
5. View from Wharf at Parramatta
6. Church at Parramatta, St Johns
7. Mr Darvalls house at Parramatta river, looking west
8. On Parramatta River, 1848, Sydney N.S.W.
9. Sydney Harbour [with male portrait on reverse]
10. Point in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney
11. Granite, New South Wales, 1847
12. Sketch on the Murrumbidgee showing the stratification in the fossiliferous limestone
13. Limestone cliff & shallow cave on the banks of the Murrumbidgee N.S.W. showing the stratification about 8 miles from Yass
14. Scene in the Blue Mountains on the road to Bathurst near Mt Victoria, N.S.W.
15. Caldeira [?] of Fayal
16. Untitled [house and farm]
16a. [Accompanying note in the hand of `P.M.J.' Phylis Mander Jones, Mitchell Library, dated `6.9.66'. She assessed the material in England in the 1960s whilst still part of the Crawford family collection]

Drawings titled in pencil at lower edge or on reverse
Some of the wove paper watermarked `J. Whatman 184-?'